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FAQ

I select a thematically appropriate horror movie for each day of the year and tell you about it.

Why?

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

How do you get to decide what qualifies as a horror movie and where each one goes on the calendar?

I am the Mayor of Horror Movies.

Are all these movies good?

Oh gosh no. But I recommend all of them to the adventurous viewer.

What’s with the CWs?

In horror movies, disturbing material is part of the entertainment package. But for some viewers, elements like sexual violence or bigotry ruin the fun. For those folks, I include content warnings. That said, the warnings are based on my personal reactions and should not be expected to cover all potential cinematic skeeviness, so proceed with caution.

Who are you, aside from the mayor?

I’m Shaenon K. Garrity. I’m mostly a cartoonist. I watch a lot of scary movies while I draw cartoons.

April 20

Discussion (4) ¬

Yep, this is one where I knew the film before reading the quotation or the description. Those instruments are hard to forget. This may be my favorite of Cronenberg’s movies – much of the horror is less seen outright, and more implied, than in his previous work (and Irons’ performances are amazing).

While I yield to NOBODY in my admiration of the strip and your work over-all, I’m getting some serious drive to watch movies whilst in throes of creative duties. Tee-hee. Whoever said I had to
lock myself away in durance vile to practice and do the work? They were wrong. You’re right.

This is the movie that forever changed the way I saw film. I saw it when I was 16, and I never knew that a movie could be this intense psychologically. It was my gateway into Cronenberg, and convinced me that horror could be so much more than just monsters eating people.